The Diagnostic Study Home for Emotionally Disturbed Children of The New England Home for Little Wanderers

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Emotional and mental disturbances are among the most
pressing problems facing society at the present time. More
children are lost to society through serious emotional and
mental disturbances than through any childhood disease.
Although there are various causes for these disturbances, a
poor home environment, especially hostility and rejection by
parents, is a major cause. The experiences of these disturbed
children have been so unrewarding that their view the world
as a hostile place and other people as their enemies. In
this environment emotionally disturbed children feel they
must strike out before they, themselves, are struck down.
During the past three months as a counselor, I have
had the opportunity to observe emotionally disturbed children
at the Dlagnostic Study Home of the New England Home for
Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts. These observations
and studies have formed the basis of this thesis.